pesticides

The chemical, used for decades, can harm babies’ developing brains. Farmworkers and people living near fields are most at risk. The EPA issued a rare emergency order.

California is acting later than many states in regulating neonicotinoids, but its rules would be among the nation’s most extensive. They would change how growers kill pests on nuts, citrus and other fruit crops.

On this week’s Valley Edition: How the supply chain breakdown is impacting the region’s biggest industry, agriculture. Listen to this interview and more.

On this week’s Valley Edition: How the supply chain breakdown is impacting the region’s biggest industry, agriculture. Listen to this interview and more.

Before becoming an advocate for pesticide regulation, Maria Alejandra Reyes worked as a farmworker in the Central Valley for 15 years.

Local organizers rallied outside the Department of Pesticide Regulations in Clovis Tuesday to demand immediate pesticide reform following a study…

On this week’s Valley Edition: The valley’s rich cultural diversity is an asset, but what if you’re a farmer, and important safety videos aren’t made in a…

Pesticide regulations can be tough to understand, especially among communities that don’t speak English. Recently, however, with the help of local ag…

Last week, the State of California took its first steps to fully ban the harmful pesticide chlorpyrifos that can cause neurological problems and…

Almonds are a nearly $3 billion industry here in the San Joaquin Valley—but without honeybees to pollinate the trees, there would be no harvest. By some…